>>It was basically Java, but then dumbed down a bit, as I recall. C# 1.0 had all the important features of Java 1.4 plus delegates, events, autoboxing, enumera

>>It was basically Java, but then dumbed down a bit, as I recall. C# 1.0 had all the important features of Java 1.4 plus delegates, events, autoboxing, enumerations, operator overloading, indexers, foreach and a lot more. IMHO 90% of enterprise developers today are using the features from C# 1.0/Java 1.2 + generics. It's not some Prolog/Lisp/Haskel clone, but far from old fashioned.